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title: Geometric separator

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# Geometric separator

### without the boundary vertex term
- GEOMETRIC SEPARATORS FOR FINITE-ELEMENT MESHES: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~glmiller/Publications/Papers/MiTeThVa98.pdf
    ![](https://i.imgur.com/t6dwXLt.png)
    
- FAST NESTED DISSECTION FOR FINITE ELEMENT MESHES: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/S0895479895284282 
    ![](https://i.imgur.com/Rl5JdMl.png)
    ![](https://i.imgur.com/Fv5qeGY.png)
   
### with the boundary vertex term
- Automatic Mesh Partitioning: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~glmiller/Publications/Papers/MiTeThVa93.pdf
    ![](https://i.imgur.com/OtTh6dY.png)
    
- Separators in Two and Three Dimensions: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~glmiller/Publications/Papers/MiTh90.pdf
    ![](https://i.imgur.com/GQGvoFN.png)
    ![](https://i.imgur.com/i6aFhMZ.png)